Heat Recovery Solutions
Decarbonizing New York State's existing buildings requires technologies and solutions that can significant improve heat recovery efficacy. Through RFQL 5217 
, NYSERDA is recruiting and selecting qualified manufacturers of heat recovery solutions to support adoption by New York State's real estate decision-makers, architects, engineers, and construction professionals working on building retrofits. These solution providers and their products will provide insights about qualified and replicable heat recovery solutions and their real-world efficacy.
Working with NYSERDA through RFQL 5217 will help qualified manufacturers access the New York market for building retrofits, receive support for technology transfer, and engage with key market stakeholders. Additionally, heat recovery design projects funded through NYSERDA’s Heat Recovery Program are encouraged to incorporate technologies and solutions from qualified manufacturers.
Explore the current list of qualified manufacturers and their heat recovery solution below.
Evaluation Criteria for Product Selection
NYSERDA is evaluating and selecting heat recovery solutions and manufacturers based on the following criteria:
- Heat Recovery Effectiveness: Competitive uniqueness separating the proposed product from others available in the market.
- Application in Existing Buildings: Product is practically retrofitted in targeted NYS built environment with a focus for recovering and repurposing wasted thermal energy to reduce energy consumption and carbon footprint.
- Technology Readiness: Commercialized product meets or exceeds Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 6.
- Market Acceptance: Product addresses a significant problem or overcomes retrofit barriers in NYS.
Heat Recovery Solution Manufacturers and Products
| Manufacturer | Description | Product Type |
|---|---|---|
| LG Electronics |
LG Ventilation Solution ERV is an efficient solution for improving indoor air quality. The heat exchanger saves up to 24% more energy than natural ventilation and works with other features to provide total energy savings of up to 40%. The technology also features outdoor temperature sensing to adjust operation and a nighttime free cooling mode. | Airside Heat Recovery |
| Oxygen8 |
Ventilation solutions provide 100% fresh, filtered outside air to building occupants. The product lines include high-efficiency energy recovery, MERV-13 filtration, and integration with Daikin VRV heat-pump technology for heating and cooling. | Airside Heat Recovery |
| Ventacity |
These ultra-efficient ventilation solutions provide excellent performance, reduced maintenance, greater operational efficiency while creating healthy, comfortable environments. Units boast energy recovery efficiencies of up to 93%, reducing both heating and cooling loads on other equipment and HVAC energy use. | Airside Heat Recovery |
| Renewaire |
High-efficiency, static-plate, enthalpy-core ERVs utilize a highly developed air-to-air energy exchange core. The plates are made of an engineered “resin” material that simultaneously transfers heat through conduction and humidity by attracting bound water vapor from one airstream to the other. | Airside Heat Recovery |
| Swegon |
Swegon airside heat recovery equipment uses a rotary heat exchanger to extract wasted energy from warm exhaust air, transferring heat to colder supply air, while also recovering moisture with a sorption-treated rotor. | Airside Heat Recovery |
| Aermec |
Air-source and water-source heat pumps enable heat recovery through simultaneous loads, high temperature hot water, and modularity for chillers in retrofit applications. The NRB, and NRP product lines are air-source heat pumps, and the NXP, WWB, and WWM are water-source models. | Airside Heat Recovery |
| SHARC Energy |
These wastewater heat recovery units are optimized for district energy, large commercial, and large multifamily use, ranging from 10 to 2,500 gpm of wastewater. The base model is able to recover thermal energy from wastewater streams for domestic hot water heating, while the HC model can also recover heat from a space cooling system to boost performance. | Wastewater Heat Recovery |
| Petra Engineering Industries |
This energy recovery ventilator can be used as an air handling unit (AHU) or a dedicated outdoor air system (DOAS). Traditional energy recovery ventilation is accomplished with a cross-core heat exchanger, but Petra units also include an evaporator coil in the exhaust airstream, allowing DOAS operation nearly independent of the outside air temperature. | Airside Heat Recovery |
| Bulldog Heat Pump |
This high-efficiency heat exchanger leverages heat rejected from a conventional water-cooled air conditioner to provide space heating via a fan coil. The compressors maintain cooling mode operation, but the heat pump can provide both cooling and heating year-round. | Water-cooled Air Conditioner, Hydronic Space Heater |
| LiquidCool Solutions |
This full-immersion, direct flow, liquid tight chassis can be mounted directly to a server rack in a data center for electronics cooling. Heat removed from electronic components can be used for various applications: liquid to air (LTA) for space heating, and liquid to liquid (LTL) for hot water. | Process Heat Recovery |
| Carbon Cap |
This high-efficiency condensing economizer can be retrofitted onto any commercial boiler and provides two times the heat transfer over competing systems. This results in greater boiler efficiency, reduced natural gas consumption, and lower carbon emissions. | Flue-gas Heat Recovery |